What's the equivalent of jeans on Mars? Better start investing now...

Hey, haz waste is getting expensive to dispose of!

Actually, I do kind of wonder if it is getting to the point where it would have been cheaper just to launch rad waste into space rather than pay for all the studies and eventual construction costs associated with building a permanent disposal site.

I bet you're using a Microsoft keyboard, aren't you.

Right, because there's no way a civilization advanced enough to build 282743338860000000 square kilometers of solar panels is going to be able to build solar panels capable of absorbing and using mid-infrared light (heat). If the supposition is that they inevitably build Dyson spheres to capture all of the available energy coming off their star, why would they let a whole bunch of it escape as heat?

Seems like a giant waste of time and money, but I suppose they will be generating useful data while they look. Still, their chances of finding one are likely ludicrously close to zero even if one does exist. I also find the whole premise to be rather poorly thought out, I have to admit; even if a civilization is capable of building a Dyson sphere, I'm not sure it makes any sense to actually do it.

Driving isn't a necessity in California? Guess I know you've never been here before... that, or you are astonishingly unobservant.

Of course even just looking at the summary would tell you which states are involved, so clearly it is the latter. And I have no idea why I'm wasting time responding to an AC who didn't even manage to read the summary.

From what I've read it isn't clear that it will actually be available with the 2 rear-facing seats - apparently it is doubtful that these meet federal crash safety requirements. Elon Musk's personal Model S does have them, but I believe that is considered a prototype and doesn't have to meet the same requirements (he has 5 children, and wanted to be able to fit them all in his car).

Funny, but Wired just did a write-up and noted that it is available with 3G (no 4G though, lame). Though they did complain that the voice control won't be enabled at launch.

How do you think we learned it is safe? Besides, I'm sure this wasn't a central reason for the testing, more like an add-on since they were setting off the nukes anyway.

Now, now, nobody actually does an "Ask Slashdot" looking for advice, they do it to brag about the cool thing they have/are doing/are trying to do.

That said, it should be obvious that what Razgorov really needs is a yardarm attached to the mast so he/she/it has somewhere to hang all the pirates from.

Based on the fact that they have some sort of event scheduled for next week, I'd guess that they ordered what they thought would be enough units from manufacturing to hold them over until the KF2 is released, but ran out. Rather than order a whole new manufacturing run to tide them over for a week, looks like they just decided to wait for their new product launch.

It is a common expression here, too (US). But the parent is grammatically correct; HR means what he is saying, but generally just call these doomed jobs "redundancies" because it is obvious to them that any redundant job will be eliminated - no need to say it outright.

How much energy does it take to create these mats, put them in place, harvest, etc. Wouldn't this rather rapidly reduce the local concentration of uranium in seawater, requiring the mats to constantly be moved (or placed in areas with strong currents flushing new supplies through)? Seems like an interesting idea, but at only roughly $50 per pound (for uranium oxide) it really doesn't seem like this would pan out without massively increased demand for uranium. Maybe go after something valuable, like gold or platinum first (although I suppose they may be harder to extract from seawater)?

It is legal under international law. The UK, and any other country, can quite legally revoke the status of an embassy at any time they feel like it (though there may be a required notification period). Obviously this would have rather severe political ramifications, and the UK would have to balance what they think they might gain from it versus these consequences, but it would be quite legal. Very unlikely in this case, but if Ecuador persisted in using its embassy to shield accused criminals from trial it could happen at some point. Very unlikely they would do it for just one person, of course, but not necessarily out of line for the UK to point out to Ecuador that their diplomatic status can be revoked if they persist in flouting local laws.

Glide was based on a subset of OpenGL features specifically chosen by 3DFX for gaming. So I guess it may have been the first 3D API designed specifically for gaming (though I think Direct3D began around the same time, it just sucked), but it certainly wasn't the first 3D API.